A status report is green until it is suddenly red. The job of a good PMO is to catch the drift before the steering committee — the project reported Green that is quietly over budget, the milestone that slipped, the critical risk with no owner. This recomputes each project's RAG from the actual schedule, cost and risk data, compares it to what the project manager reported, and flags every false green with what to escalate and to whom.
Portfolio demo · illustrative synthetic data · no real project data. A production version reads your project tracker (Jira, MS Project, a spreadsheet export).
A project is only Green if all hold: schedule slip under 10%, cost performance within 10% (spend in line with progress), no open critical risk, no overdue milestone. Any one breach → Amber; two or more, or a hard breach → Red. Reported vs calculated is the tell.
Select a project to see the calculated RAG, why it differs from the report, and the escalation.
Steering committees act on the status they are shown. A project that reports Green until the month it goes Red has cost the sponsor the one thing they needed: lead time. Recomputing status from the data turns the steerco from a surprise into a decision.